Cut Farm Subsidies

Updated Feb. 21, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Richard Holbrooke and Stuart Eizenstat ("Trade for Aid," editorial feature, Feb. 16) are absolutely right that Africa needs a successful conclusion to the Doha Round. But steep EU farm tariff cuts both ways for developing countries depending on their level of competitiveness. EU farm tariff cuts will do little for most in the developing world for the simple reason that almost all of their agricultural produce already enters the EU tariff-free. The EU has already almost fully implemented the 100% duty-free/quota-free market access for all exports from Least Developed Countries that we agreed back in 2001 --...